System Shock® 2 (1999)

System Shock 2 CURED my CANCER! If you don't like SYSTEM SHOCK 2, you're probably the kind of person who KICKS KITTENS! DON'T BE A KITTEN-KICKER! BUY SYSTEM SHOCK 2! ...Yeah. So, there are plenty of people who are very, very enthusiastic about System Shock 2. And that's their right, and perhaps you'll be one of them. Just be aware: this is a game with some serious flaws. It has a broken economy. Infinitely respawning enemies who fire an unlimited number of very accurate shots at you from weapons that prove to be unloaded and broken when you look over their corpses. Weapons that degenerate into uselessness at a pace that has never been imitated elsewhere (and, sorry, fans: there's a very good reason for that!) A number of player-unfriendly choices, and at least one small plot development that no one really considered the ramifications of (your host can also *remove* cyber modules? Hmm...) Some people will rave about its difficulty being part and parcel of "*real* survival horror", but for my part, SS2's mechanics ceased being horrifying and started being irritating and wearying long before the final reel. The came consistently punishes you for exploring, for taking chances, for not being properly equipped to deal with threats you have no way of predicting- and that's not "horror"; that's just bad design. It's not a "great" game, nor is it a "bad" game, nor would it be entirely accurate to call it "good" or "mediocre", and certainly not "average".

Buy it, play it, enjoy it.

One of the much beautiful game ever made.

One of the best first person/horror/role playing games ever made. If you haven't played this, you have to! If you have played it, then you should play it again, now!

Simply 11/10. The best game ever.